Water and wastewater strategic township plan Warragul, Victoria

Abstract

In the past, water authorities have been undertaking capital works expenditure on aforward planning window of 18 months. Now under a more regulated StateGovernment regime, water authorities have to prepare more detailed plans showingfuture capital expenditure over a five year period. These plans are then used to set pricetariffs for the business to cover those costs over that period.With this in mind, the main objective of this dissertation was to prepare water andwastewater strategic plans for Warragul, Victoria. These plans would then be adoptedby the organisation. Any recommendations from these strategic plans are thenforwarded onto Gippsland Water’s asset improvement department to undergo moredetailed planning and costing. These plans and costs are then submitted to theregulatory for approval in Gippsland Water’s submission of the water plan. Water PlanNo.2 is due for submission by March 2007.